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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6893400 | Angiopathy diagnosing apparatus An apparatus for diagnosing an angiopathy of a living subject, including a first pulse-wave-propagation-velocity-related-information obtaining device which obtains a first pulse-wave-propagation-velocity-related information that is related to a first velocity at whi... | 05/17/2005 |
| 6878273 | Dialyzing apparatus A dialyzing apparatus includes a dialyzer which removes water from blood of a patient at a pre-set water-remove rate, an autonomic-nerve-activity-related-information obtaining device which obtains autonomic-nerve-activity-related information that is related to an ac... | 04/12/2005 |
| 6878272 | Dialyzing apparatus A dialyzing apparatus includes a dialyzer which removes water from blood of a patient at a water-remove rate during a dialysis operation, a blood-pressure-change-related-information obtaining device which obtains a plurality of sorts of blood-pressure-change-related... | 04/12/2005 |
| 6808496 | Oscillometric automatic blood-pressure measuring apparatus An oscillometric automatic blood-pressure measuring apparatus, including an inflatable cuff which is adapted to be wound around a portion of a living subject, so as to detect respective amplitudes of a plurality of heartbeat-synchronous pulses of a cuff pulse wave a... | 10/26/2004 |
| 6746405 | Blood pressure measuring apparatus with pulse wave detecting function A blood pressure measuring apparatus, including a cuff adapted to be worn on a body portion of a living subject, and determining a blood pressure value of the subject based on a signal obtained from the cuff when a pressure in the cuff is changed, wherein the appara... | 06/08/2004 |
| 6740044 | Blood-pressure monitoring apparatus for use in dialysis, and dialyzing apparatus A blood-pressure monitoring apparatus for use with a dialyzing device, including a blood-pressure-related-information obtaining device which iteratively obtains, from a patient who is undergoing a dialysis operation of the dialyzing device, a piece of blood-pressure... | 05/25/2004 |
| 6730039 | Arteriosclerosis-degree evaluating apparatus An arteriosclerosis-degree evaluating apparatus, including a blood-pressure measuring device which iteratively measures a blood pressure value of a living subject, a pulse-wave-propagation-velocity-related-information obtaining device which iteratively obtains, at s... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6726632 | Arteriosclerosis-degree evaluating apparatus An apparatus for evaluating a degree of arteriosclerosis of a living subject, the apparatus including a blood-pressure measuring device which measures a systolic and a diastolic blood pressure of the subject, a pulse-wave-propagation-velocity-related-information obt... | 04/27/2004 |
| 6726633 | Advertising method using automatic blood pressure measuring apparatus, and automatic blood pressure measuring apparatus having advertising function An advertising method, including the step of displaying, during a blood-pressure measuring operation of an automatic blood-pressure measuring apparatus including an inflatable cuff and a display device, an advertisement on the display device. ... | 04/27/2004 |
| 6719704 | Vascular endothelial cell function evaluating apparatus A vascular-endothelial-cell-function evaluating apparatus including a pressing device including a cuff that is adapted to be worn on a first portion of a living subject, and a cuff-pressure changing device that changes a pressure in the cuff so as to press the first... | 04/13/2004 |
| 6716177 | Inferior-and-superior-limb blood-pressure index measuring apparatus An apparatus for measuring an inferior-and-superior-limb blood-pressure index of a living subject, including an inferior-limb blood-pressure measuring device which measures an inferior-limb blood pressure of an inferior limb of the subject, a superior-limb blood-pre... | 04/06/2004 |
| 6712768 | Augmentation-index determining apparatus and arteriosclerosis inspecting apparatus An augmentation-index determining apparatus, including a cuff, a cuff-pressure changing device which changes a pressing pressure of the cuff, a pulse-wave extracting device which extracts a pulse wave from the cuff, a peak-occurrence-time determining device for dete... | 03/30/2004 |
| 6702754 | Arteriosclerosis inspecting apparatus An apparatus for inspecting arteriosclerosis of a living subject, including a pulse-wave detecting device which detects a pulse wave from a portion of the subject, an augmentation-index determining device for determining, based on the pulse wave detected ... | 03/09/2004 |
| 6702753 | Blood pressure measuring apparatus An apparatus for measuring a blood pressure of a superior limb or an inferior limb of a living subject, including a blood-pressure measuring device which includes a measuring member adapted to be worn on a measurement portion of the superior or inferior l... | 03/09/2004 |
| 6699197 | Pulse-wave-propagation-velocity-related-information obtaining apparatus An apparatus for obtaining information related to a velocity at which a pulse wave propagates in a living subject, the apparatus including a pulse-wave sensor which is adapted to be worn on a body portion of the subject and detects the pulse wave from the... | 03/02/2004 |
| 6669645 | Autonomic-nerve-function evaluating apparatus An apparatus for evaluating a function of an autonomic nerve of a living subject, including a heart-rate measuring device which iteratively measures a heart rate of the subject, a cuff-pressure changing device which changes a pressure in a first cuff adap... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6669646 | Arteriosclerosis evaluating apparatus An arteriosclerosis evaluating apparatus including a left-superior-limb-blood-pressure measuring device including a cuff, a right-superior-limb-blood-pressure measuring device including a cuff, a ratio determining means for determining a ratio between a ... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6666827 | Arteriosclerosis evaluating apparatus An apparatus for evaluating arteriosclerosis of a living subject, including a pulse-wave detecting device which detects a pulse wave from each of a first portion and a second portion of the subject, each of the respective pulse waves detected from the fir... | 12/23/2003 |
| 6659958 | Augmentation-index measuring apparatus An augmentation-index measuring apparatus including a cuff which is adapted to be worn on a portion of a living subject to press the portion, a fourth-order-differentiating device for subjecting a cuff pulse wave obtained from the cuff, to a fourth-order ... | 12/09/2003 |
| 6652465 | Blood-pressure measurement apparatus capable of heart function assessment An apparatus for blood pressure measurement capable of heart function assessment for readily putting on a living subject, comprising an inflatable cuff including a pressure-pulse-wave sensor, which is combined into one body with the cuff at an upper-strea... | 11/25/2003 |
| 6645156 | Continuous blood-pressure monitoring apparatus A continuous blood-pressure monitoring device apparatus including a cuff, a first determining device, a detecting device which detects a pressure pulse wave produced by an artery, a second determining device, a monitoring device, an information obtaining ... | 11/11/2003 |
| 6645155 | Blood pressure monitor apparatus A blood pressure monitor apparatus for monitoring a blood pressure of a living subject, comprising: pulse-wave-propagation-velocity-relating information obtaining means for successively obtaining pulse-wave-propagation-velocity-relating information which ... | 11/11/2003 |
| 6645154 | Blood-pressure-waveform monitoring apparatus An apparatus for monitoring a blood-pressure waveform representing a blood pressure of a living subject, including a cuff which is around a portion of the subject, a blood-pressure determining device which determines a blood pressure of the subject based ... | 11/11/2003 |
| 6626842 | Heart-sound analyzing apparatus A heart-sound analyzing apparatus, including a heart-sound microphone which is adapted to be worn on a living subject to iteratively detect a second heart sound II of the subject, a respiration-synchronous-signal detecting device which iteratively detects... | 09/30/2003 |
| 6616608 | Periodic-physical-information measuring apparatus An apparatus for measuring a periodic physical information of a living subject, including a measuring device which iteratively measures, from the subject, a value of the periodic physical information including a periodically changing component, a waveform... | 09/09/2003 |
| 6612993 | Arteriosclerosis evaluating apparatus An apparatus for evaluating a degree of arteriosclerosis of a living subject, including a pulse-wave-propagation-velocity-related-information obtaining device which obtains pulse-wave-propagation-velocity-related information that is related to a velocity ... | 09/02/2003 |
| 6610017 | Continuous blood-pressure monitoring apparatus An apparatus for continuously monitoring a blood pressure of a subject, comprising a cuff; a device for determining a blood pressure of the subject based on a signal obtained while the cuff pressure is changed; a device for determining a relationship betw... | 08/26/2003 |
| 6607492 | Pressure-pulse-wave detecting apparatus An apparatus for detecting a pressure pulse wave produced by an artery of a living subject, including a pressure-pulse-wave sensor which is adapted to be pressed against the artery of the subject via a skin of the subject, detects the pressure pulse wave ... | 08/19/2003 |
| 6602198 | Automatic blood-pressure measuring apparatus An apparatus for automatically measuring a blood pressure of a living subject, including an inflatable cuff which is wound around a portion of the subject, a cuff pulse wave including heartbeat-synchronous pulses occurring to the cuff when a pressure in t... | 08/05/2003 |
| 6589186 | Blood-pressure measuring apparatus A blood-pressure measuring apparatus including a cuff worn on a body portion of a subject to apply a pressure to the body portion; a changing device which changes the cuff pressure; a determining device which determines a diastolic and mean blood pressure... | 07/08/2003 |
| 6589183 | Arterial-hardness evaluating apparatus An apparatus for evaluating a degree of hardness of an artery of a living subject, including a blood-flow stopping device which stops a flow of blood through a first portion of the subject, and a blood-amount detecting device which is adapted to be worn o... | 07/08/2003 |
| 6583727 | Patient detecting apparatus An apparatus for detecting a patient, including a plurality of pressure detecting devices which are adapted to be placed on a bed such that the pressure detecting devices are arranged in a widthwise direction of the bed, and which detect respective pressu... | 06/24/2003 |
| 6582373 | Automatic blood-pressure measuring apparatus An apparatus for automatically measuring a blood pressure of a living subject, including an inflatable cuff which is adapted to be wound around a portion of the subject, an increase-end-pressure determining device for determining, based on a cuff pulse wa... | 06/24/2003 |
| 6582374 | Automatic blood-pressure measuring apparatus An apparatus for automatically measuring a blood pressure of a living subject, including a cuff which is wound around a portion of the subject, a cuff pulse wave occurring to the cuff when a pressure in the cuff is changed, a pulse-wave detecting device w... | 06/24/2003 |
| 6565515 | Pulse-wave-propagation-velocity-relating-information obtaining apparatus and blood-pressure-index measuring apparatus An apparatus for obtaining information relating to a velocity at which a pulse wave propagates in a living subject, the apparatus including a first inflatable cuff and a second inflatable cuff which are adapted to be worn on two different portions of the ... | 05/20/2003 |
| 6561985 | Automatic blood-pressure measuring apparatus An apparatus for automatically measuring a blood pressure of a living subject, including in inflatable cuff which is adapted to be wound around a portion of the subject, a cuff pulse wave including heartbeat-synchronous pulses occurring to the cuff while ... | 05/13/2003 |
| 6547742 | Apparatus for measuring pulse-wave propagation velocity An apparatus for measuring a propagation velocity of a pulse wave which is propagated through an artery of a living subject, the apparatus including an electrocardiographic-waveform detecting device which detects an electrocardiographic waveform from the ... | 04/15/2003 |
| 6527725 | Blood pressure estimating apparatus An apparatus for estimating a blood pressure of a living subject, including a measuring device which iteratively measures a blood pressure of the subject, a first device for obtaining first information relating to velocity of propagation of pulse wave, a ... | 03/04/2003 |
| 6527726 | Blood pressure monitor A blood pressure monitor including a cuff, a pressure sensor which detects a pressure in the cuff, a pressure regulating device which increases the pressure of the cuff, a pulse-amplitude determining device for determining an amplitude of each of pulses o... | 03/04/2003 |
| 6524257 | Superior-and-inferior-limb blood-pressure index measuring apparatus An apparatus for measuring a superior-and-inferior-limb blood-pressure index of a living subject, including an inferior-limb-blood-pressure measuring device which includes an inferior-limb cuff adapted to be wound around an inferior limb of the subject an... | 02/25/2003 |
